A Palestinian source revealed today (Sunday) that Qatar and Egypt presented new proposals to return to the humanitarian truce between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip.

The source told Xinhua News Agency that the new proposals aim to agree between the two sides to exchange additional categories of Palestinian prisoners and Israeli detainees in preparation for declaring a ceasefire again.

The source stated that Qatar and Egypt are pressing to bridge the differences between Israel and Hamas by offering to exchange groups of elderly people and the remaining women detained in the Gaza Strip.

According to the source, regional and international parties warned both Israel and Hamas of the dangers of stopping indirect negotiations and limiting themselves to negotiating under fire at this stage, which portends more dangerous developments on the ground.

Yesterday evening, Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Saleh Al-Arouri, announced that the movement’s official position now is that “there will be no exchange of prisoners except after the end of the war” on the Gaza Strip.

Al-Arouri said, "The remaining prisoners in Gaza are soldiers and civilian men who served in the army, while Israel has decided that it does not want to resume the exchange deal with new standards. The elderly men among the detainees, for us, served in the army, and some of them are still in it."

Before that, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced that negotiations on returning to the truce in the Gaza Strip had reached a "dead end," accusing Hamas of not implementing its obligations regarding the release of the hostages.

A statement issued by the Israeli Prime Minister stated that Mossad Chief David Baring instructed his staff in Doha to return to the country on instructions from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to the "deadlock" that the negotiations had reached regarding restoring the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip.

Israel and Hamas resumed their military operations immediately after the end of the declared truce, while the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides are continuing to return to the truce.